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Re:BitTorrent v2 (2020) by hannob on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:59AM (#29874857)
Computers can only become faster within the limits of what humans are able to build and what physics allows.

You're not gonna break SHA256 with faster computers.

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Re:BitTorrent v2 (2020) by seanw444 on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:02AM (#29874907)
I swear there was a pertinent article link that goes through how it's physically impossible to construct a computing device fast enough to break SHA-256, even at the most fundamental scale.
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